TWB June 15th 2019 Experience: Day 8-Santa Monica, CA

Day 8: Santa Monica

Hey y’all! Wassupppppppp J

It’s the sleepy group blogging to you live from the West Coast! Our new bloggers include Cade Hastings, Cody Allen, Harrison Miller, Mary Beam, Gracie Crocker, Reagan Griffin, Aubrey Spicola, Marina Hastings, Jessie Curtis, Ashleigh Stocks, and Millie Dukes. Yes, we understand we’re a few days behind. The post we originally typed, got erased, and we had to start fresh! But we’re the best so we’ll make do!

Today we woke up at 6:30 am to a view of the beaches and mountains of California. The best bus driver ever, Craig, informed us that we were five minutes away from our destination, and to start preparing ourselves for one of the best days of the trip! We got off the bus, and it wasn’t what any of us were expecting. It was about 50 degrees and cloudy, but we made the best of it. All before 8:00 am, we had dove head first into the freezing ocean, and buried each other in the sand! We all met for a breakfast at about 8:30. We had a variety of cereals and a banana. For some, this wasn’t enough to fill up, so a few of our campers went to a few different breakfast places. The food was delicious, but we had multiple comments from different campers about the service, to say the least, it wasn’t the southern hospitality we are used to.

The rest of the day, we all split up and did our own things! Some of us went shopping, we took naps, laid out on the beach, ate at local restaurants, and so many more things! A lot of our campers went to a summer solstice festival. We got so many free goodies! If you can think it, we got it! We got free cookies, stickers, box water, massages, cliff bars, pizza, and a whole lot more! Harrison Miller actually entered to win a free speaker, best of luck to him! While out in the city of Santa Monica, our campers saw a new set of scenery. We saw youtubers and even street performers. Our very own, Charlie Inabinet, actually sang with Seth Baer (local musician), it was such a beautiful duet!

As of right now, all the groups are practicing for a competition. The competition is basically the different groups making a theme song. We’re doing this by using the background music of another song and making our own original lyrics! But there isn’t really any need for this competition because everyone already knows that the sleepy group is THE best group J .

For dinner we ate spaghetti and salad, it was legit the BEST meal we’ve had on this trip, in our opinions. Almost everyone was in line for seconds. And for dessert, of course, popsicles, delish as always…

We decided to reschedule the competition for another day since everyone was already SUPER tired. Most everyone was asleep by 9:30, quiet hours at the campground is 9:00, so that definitely helped everyone fall asleep. AND there wasn’t any lights that stayed on over night, which everyone enjoyed!

Sleepies are signing off, good night blog stalkers.